Being Chosen For Project Management Consulting

If you’re trying to land a project management consulting job with little or no experience, it’s probably not going to happen. To become a project manager, or even a member of a project management consulting team, you’ll need to have a track record of working in an important capacity as a member of a consulting team.

This is not a catch-22. You don’t start at a company as CEO, and likewise you don’t’ start project management consulting as lead project manager. One of best way to enter project management consulting world is as a team member in a company when your employer is working on a project.

Another way to find a job in project management consulting is by finding a position with a consulting company. You may need a previous track record in your specialty, or you may be able to enter a consulting company right after college; but it’s certain that if you want to become a project manager, you’ll need further education as well as plenty of experience. When you begin working for a project management consulting firm, let your supervisor know what your goals are. They know best way to get good project managers is to grow them in their own company.

Rarely will a person without at least an MBA be able to enter interim executive management. A PhD is better. Often having a law degree will give you a real advantage.

Working With Difficult Situations

Interim executive management often involves dealing with difficult management situations, like downsizing and business change or acting as a temporary replacement for a bad executive. Your position will come with some heavy baggage, and you’ll need to overcome preconceptions your coworkers won’t even realize they have.

When you’re taking over position of a fired executive, you must step in and make position your own. The more quickly you can thoroughly replace failed executive and begin reversing damage he did, easier it will be to gain respect of your coworkers.

If you’re in a company that needs interim executive management because of business change – downsizing, offshoring, or other strategies that may be leading to loss of jobs – you should remember to be tactful at all times. Even if you know who’s going to be let go, you need to treat all coworkers equally and divorce yourself as far as possible from that knowledge. It goes without saying that you also should never engage in any kind of gossip.

Each new position will not only be challenging in itself, but peculiar circumstances surrounding it will provide further challenge. Interim executive management is one of most challenging and interesting careers you can choose.